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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
That is absolutely fascinating, and somewhat unfathomable. Let me be blunt for a minute, and just give a reality of life. If you only accept patients 65 and over, the men , on average, will be with you for 13 years and the women 16 years. Sorry, but that's the reality. You need to replace those patients with younger people to sustain a practice. You may conclude you can just replace those no longer with us with 65 year olds in a 15 year cycle, but that is likely to fail. Since many move here in their 50's, they would have to seek out area physicians. Those patients are not likely to leave that doctor after, say 10 years, to join TV Health when they turn 65, so this policy is one of long term spiraling failure. In addition, private insurance generally pays a little better than medicare, so this makes no financial sense in the short term either.
My first appointment is in 3 weeks, I literally signed up 3 days before that change was made (I'm 56). Phew! I'll also check this out a bit further, because after 30 years of running a practice, this still makes no sense to me.
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You may be "grandfathered" in now or you may simply be a transition patient depending on how well the new business model works. I would feel uneasy in your position. You don't have a contract with them do you ? When a business trashes customers the way they have I wouldn't give them the time of day, let alone my money.
Because they use the trademark "The Villages" doesn't make them special, IMHO